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Alberta government announces end of vaccine passports - other restrictions to be phased out, with conditions

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Alberta premier Jason Kenney announced on Tuesday that the province would be phasing out COVID restrictions effective immediately, with vaccine passports among the first to be ditched.

On Wednesday, Alberta premier Jason Kenney announced that the province's COVID Cabinet Committee had approved a "careful and prudent plan to remove Alberta's public health restrictions, and move on from a widespread pandemic response to get our lives back to normal."


The plan will be enacted in three steps, with the first step slated to go into effect February 9.

The vaccine passport program will reportedly end at midnight tonight.

Comment: Truck yeah.

UPDATE: It looks like Kenney is a real politician.




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China against NATO's expansion, sees it as useless for global security - statement

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© AP Photo/Olivier MatthysBeijing believes that regional security should not be guaranteed by strengthening or expanding military blocs, the Mission of the People's Republic of China to the EU noted
The Mission of the People's Republic of China to the European Union opposes NATO's expansion and views its efforts that allegedly aim to ensure global security as useless, according to a statement published on Tuesday on the mission's website.

"NATO continues to expand its geographical scope and the range of operations and engages in bloc politics and confrontation. This is not conducive to global security and stability," the statement emphasized.

"We call on NATO to abandon the Cold War mentality and ideological bias, respect the sovereignty, security, interests as well as the diversity of civilizations, history and culture of other countries," the document said.

Comment: China's right, and it seems that an increasing number of countries are demonstrating their agreement in their pivot to the multipolar alliance; a number of significant moves that happened once the US ramped up its provocations in Ukraine: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Groundhog Day in the Situation Room: Whacking 'Our' Terrorists, Hating on Russia




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Horowitz: The Pentagon's response to the explosive DOD medical data is an even bigger story than the data

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One thing is clear about the revelation of the 2021 military epidemiological data and the military's response to it: There is undoubtedly a public health and national security crisis in the military, and the Pentagon's reaction only seems to be concerned with exonerating the vaccine, not fixing its own alleged problem.

It's now certain that the military's health surveillance system — DMEDshowed a massive increase in sickness and injury diagnoses in 2021 over previous years, particularly in the neurological, cardiovascular, oncological, and reproductive health categories. The military, in a very terse and cryptic statement to PolitiFact last week, admitted as much, but claimed without any further explanation that the data in the system accessed by several military doctors working with attorney Thomas Renz was only a "fraction" of the true numbers that existed. In the words of the Pentagon spokesman, it was a "glitch in the database." Where those true numbers existed, why they weren't in the system for five years, what exactly was in the system, and why the 2021 numbers were accurate according to the DOD account remain a mystery.

However, one by one, the military public health officials have been adding back random numbers to the 2016 through 2020 codes. I'm told by Renz and two of the whistleblowers that throughout the past week, they have queried the same data again, and in most of the ICD categories, they have found that the numbers from 2016 through 2020 were "increased" exponentially to look as though 2021 was not an abnormal year. This has been done without any transparency, any press release, any statement of narrative, and sloppily in a way that makes the already unbelievable narrative simply impossible to believe.

In addition to believing that every epidemiological report for five years was somehow completely tainted with false data — including during the first year of the pandemic itself — we would have to believe that the minute they discovered this from Renz, they suddenly discovered the exact numbers. A five-year mistake fixed overnight!

Comment: There is no reason to trust ANY statistics from any agency. Add the military's deception to that list!


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Macron reveals stance on NATO, EU and Ukraine ahead of Putin talks

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© Global Look Press/Mark VorwerkRussian President Vladimir Putin • French President Emmanuel Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron has argued that Russia is not interested in invading Ukraine, expressing optimism that - so long as the West is prepared to make concessions - he can secure a "de-escalation" of tensions surrounding the Eastern European nation. He is set to meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday, in Moscow.

Macron, in a weekend interview with the weekly Journal du Dimanche before his departure for Moscow, explained:
"The geopolitical objective of Russia today is clearly not Ukraine, but to clarify the rules of cohabitation with NATO and the EU."
Russia has repeatedly called for NATO to cease expanding eastward into former Soviet territories, citing an agreement made at the time of the USSR's collapse that has since been repeatedly violated.

Taking aim at the US refusal to end NATO's controversial "open door policy," Macron warned:
"We have to be very realistic. We will not obtain unilateral moves, but it is essential to avoid a deterioration of the situation before building mechanisms and reciprocal gestures of trust."

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Hypocrite Pelosi dropped $500K+ on private jets in 2021 despite climate preaching

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© AP Photo/Andrew HarnikHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., walks towards the House Chamber to convene the House for legislative business at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is facing new allegations of hypocrisy amid reports she spent more than a half-a-million dollars on private jets, all while pushing climate change as America's biggest threat.

On Monday, Federal Election Commission reports revealed Pelosi's campaign spent $437,000 for 10 trips in 2021, plus two payments of $67,000 to a California company. At the same time, the Democrat was repeatedly calling climate change a "huge threat. She went as far as to say it was more important than human rights abuses in China.

During a climate change conference in Glascow, Scotland, she lectured everyday people about their "moral obligation" to reduce emissions while also pushing Joe Biden's failed Build Back Better bill.

Comment: The rules are different for Pelosi, you see.


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Taiwan views US approval of US$100M Patriot missile service deal as show of support in face of Beijing

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© APTaiwan's US-made Patriot surface-to-air missile batteries in Taipei.
Washington's approval of a possible US$100 million deal to upgrade Taiwan's Patriot missile defence system reflects the US' willingness to help Taipei arm itself against growing military threats from Beijing, Taiwan said on Tuesday.

Taiwan also hailed the approval as part of US commitments to boost the self-ruled island's defence and security amid mounting tension in the Taiwan Strait.

The US government announced on Monday the approval of possible US$100 million sale of equipment and services to Taiwan to "sustain, maintain, and improve" the Patriot system - a deal certain to further infuriate Beijing, which sees Taiwan as its territory that must be taken in control, by force if necessary.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said Beijing opposed the arms sale, saying it seriously damaged China-US relations and peace across the Taiwan Strait. "China will take strong and legitimate measures to defend its sovereignty and security interests," he said in a press conference on Tuesday.


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Courage: Liberal MP breaks ranks and criticizes public health policies dividing Canadians

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© The Canadian Press/Adrian WylThe Liberal MP for Louis-Hebert, Joël Lightbound, speaks about Covid restrictions during a news conference, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022 in Ottawa.
Quebec MP Joël Lightbound said, 'I am hopeful as well that there is room in the Liberal Party for dissent'

Liberal Quebec MP Joël Lightbound is speaking out against the division, fuelled in part by his own government, of public health measures aimed at unvaccinated Canadians.

Lightbound was alone in voicing these concerns in a press conference on Tuesday, but says he is not the only Liberal MP who is feeling uneasy with the direction the government has taken. He also said he has decided to speak out after trying to convince his caucus to change its tone.

He said that he couldn't help but notice that "both the tone and the policies" of his government changed "drastically on the eve and during the last election campaign".

Comment: Well, not full-throated support for rolling back Canada's last two years of idiocy, but considering the general spinelessness of Canadian politicians (where is their Ron DeSantis??), it's better than nothing. Keep pushing Lightbound.


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Russian Deputy FM on US sanctions: American legislators have 'lost touch with reality'

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© UnknownRed Square in Moscow
Washington's rhetoric about the possibility of imposing colossal sanctions on Russia is so outrageous that Moscow sees little point in even responding, one of the country's top diplomats has said.

In an interview with RIA Novosti on Tuesday, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin was asked about the possibility of Washington imposing unprecedentedly harsh measures on the Russian energy and financial sectors, including additional sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline linking the gas fields of Siberia to consumers in Germany.

"It's long been clear to everyone that American legislators have lost touch with reality and are living in a kingdom of their own phobias regarding our country, churning out obscurantist plans to deter Russia on all fronts, with any justification or without one," Pankin replied.

"I don't see the point in reacting to the Capitol's routine initiatives about this. We can only repeat once more our regret about what has happened, and confirm that there will inevitably be negative consequences from the harsh restrictions laid on us by the Western initiators of such measures," the diplomat added.

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Putin: Ask people in the Middle East whether NATO is strictly a 'defensive' alliance

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© Getty Images / Mario TamaImagesRumayla, Iraq
Despite NATO's insistence that it is a defensive organization, the US-led military bloc has not always acted that way, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said, citing examples of interventions in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

At a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday, Putin commented on the possibility of NATO's expansion into Ukraine and Georgia, which Russia has strongly opposed, claiming that it presents a threat to its national security.

"I'd like to note that they are trying to calm Russia, as before, with the reasoning that NATO is a peaceful and strictly defensive organization, a strictly defensive alliance," Putin said. "How much that is actually true, many governments' citizens have been able to learn by experience. I have in mind Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the large-scale operations against Belgrade without the sanction of the UN Security Council. That, of course, was an undertaking very far from what a peaceful organization would do."

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Another lying politician: Biden breaks campaign promise, won't provide free community college to Americans

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First lady Jill Biden confirmed that the administration won't be able to deliver free community college to Americans, acknowledging that a major provision of President Biden's economic agenda is off the table.

"Congress hasn't passed the Build Back Better legislation yet. And free community college is no longer part of that package," Biden said in remarks at a community college summit on Monday.

"We knew that this wasn't going to be easy. Joe always said that. Still, like you, I was disappointed because like you, these aren't just bills or budgets to me, to you, right? We know what they mean for real people, for our students. And it was a real lesson in human nature that some people just don't get that," she added.

Two years of free community college to all eligible students was part of Biden's Build Back Better agenda and a signature initiative for the first lady, who is a longtime community college professor.